Operations Manager Logistics

**Location**: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire ST6 4PY
**Contract Type**: Permanent
**Hours**: Full Time, Nightshift 22:00 to 06:00 Monday to Friday
**Salary**: £43,750 per annum (includes nightshift premium) plus car / car allowance

**Benefits**: include pension, flexible benefits, employee assistance programme
**About the Role**
As Operations Manager you will lead, manage, and motivate a team of managers to achieve business goals; through focusing on continuous improvement, quality, and attention to detail. You will plan and manage customer requirements whilst focusing on financialtargets and the development of your team.
**Operations Manager Responsibilities include**:

- Maintain and enforce company policies and be responsible for your teams to do the same
- Lead a team of first line managers to ensure they are effective leaders and act in line with policy, employment law regulations and the Unipart Leadership Fundamentals
- Ensure health and safety standards are achieved on an on-going basis and actively promote individual responsibility for health and safety
- Recruit exceptional people into the business and then develop colleagues through, using succession planning for the future
- Build and maintain strong mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers, service providers, customers, and colleagues
- Maintain all aspects of stock integrity and ensure ownership of activities and resolutions
- Ensure operating procedures and processes meet quality requirements and support performance improvement objectives; taking into account the need to respond to volume fluctuations and changes in business and customer needs
- Manage and plan for operational requirements against forecast and demand
- Liaise with customer representatives to resolve problems and maintain partnership relationships

**Operations Manager Requirements**:

- Relevant operational leadership experience within Logistics and Supply Chain in a warehousing and distribution environment
- Previous experience of managing and leading teams
- Self-motivated individual with an analytical mind and an eye for detail
- Strong planning, organisational, and time management skills
- Good written and spoken communication skills
- Customer focused
- Strong problem-solving skills, with a continuous improvement mind-set
- Computer literate, with working knowledge of Microsoft Office/equivalent, SAP and WMS
- An understanding of continuous improvement tools and techniques and process improvement experience
- Sound understanding of Health, Safety, and Environmental legislation

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies.We do not discriminate on the groundsof race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristicas defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales.As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and doyour best work every day.
You may have experience of the following: Operations Manager, Warehouse Manager, General Manager, Warehouse Supervisor, Commercial Management, Operations Management, Continuous Improvement, Warehousing, Logistics, Distribution, Supply Chain, etc.
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